Peter Joseph Hanlon (born 13 April 1959 in Dublin) is a retired British
boxer Boxer most commonly refers to:
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Boxing career
Hanlon won the 1979 and 1981
Amateur Boxing Association British
featherweight titles, when boxing out of the Gloucester ABC.
He competed in the
men's featherweight event at the
1980 Summer Olympics
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.
At the Olympics, he beat
Antonio Esparragoza
Antonio Esparragoza Betancourt (born 2 September 1959) is a Venezuelan former boxer who is a former WBA Featherweight Champion of the World.
Amateur career
Esparragoza represented Venezuela as a Featherweight at the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games ...
of Venezuela, before losing to
Viktor Rybakov
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of the Soviet Union in the last 16.
He represented
England
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and won a
silver medal
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in the featherweight division, at the
1982 Commonwealth Games
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in
Brisbane
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,
Queensland
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,
Australia
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.
References
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1959 births
Living people
British male boxers
Olympic boxers for Great Britain
Boxers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
Featherweight boxers
20th-century British sportsmen
21st-century British sportsmen
Medallists at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games silver medallists in boxing
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